NYT columnist Charles Blow calls for a
'reverse Great Migration', saying black
Americans should move back to the South to
turn states into 'centers of black power'
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
1/31/2021 12:22:09 PM
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow is calling for black Americans to launch a 'reverse Great Migration' and move back to the South to create racial majorities in the states their ancestors fled two centuries ago.
Blow presents his provocative proposal in his new book 'The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto', which hit bookstores last week.(Snip) Looking back through a modern lens, Blow asserts that 'the initial benefits of the Great Migration have given way, in many ways, to a stinging failure', citing the 'perpetual oppression' wrought by housing discrimination, police brutality, white nationalism and other forces.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
TJ54 1/31/2021 12:28:14 PM (No. 680137)
LOL - the out migration may cause blue states to turn red! What a maroon
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If you’re willing to work and make your own way, welcome! Otherwise, stay put...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 1/31/2021 12:42:06 PM (No. 680160)
Sorry, #1 but with DemoFascists controlling the vote process, once a state goes blue, it stays blue no matter what the "voters" living there want.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bgarrett 1/31/2021 12:43:36 PM (No. 680163)
NYT columnist Charles Blow calls for a
'reverse Great Migration', saying black
Americans should move back to AFRICA to
turn Africa into 'centers of black power'
FIFY
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
davew 1/31/2021 12:46:09 PM (No. 680167)
The Great Migration occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries because of the accelerated growth of the Northern industrial cities due to advances in technology like railroads, meat packing with refrigeration, autos and farm equipment, and electrification of factory machines that created assembly line jobs. This creates a vast demand for semi-skilled workers that paid much better wages than those found in the agriculturally dependent South.
None of this is now the case in the Southern US. The high technology and online services businesses require advanced education and skills. Wages for other types of businesses are suppressed due to the migration of illegal labor from Mexico and Central America. Without any means to acquire personal wealth through wages and savings the idea of migrating to the South is a romantic dream. It is based on the notion that if you can't actually generate the wealth the next best thing is to use political power to redistribute it from those who have it.
The only place in the world that is growing their industrial base is China and their Asian satellites (soon to be Taiwan). Ironically their business model is dependent on slave labor. Instead of picking cotton the non-CCP party member minorities in China assemble cheap TVs for sale at Walmart and Amazon. If Northern blacks wanted to migrate anywhere to get ahead it should probably be China accept that they are historically one of the most racist and status driven societies in the world and would never accept them.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 1/31/2021 12:47:48 PM (No. 680172)
OP - Black American elitists like Maya Angelou tried moving to Africa back in the 60s. They quickly found out that they weren't accepted there because as American mongrels they had to tribal affiliation. They ended up returning to the US with their tails between their legs. As for Blow, he's a house negro on the DNC plantation who's obviously trying to push the riff-raff away from the driveway of his massah's lily-white gated community.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Newtsche 1/31/2021 12:50:52 PM (No. 680180)
Hey Blow, have you considered who your neighbors would be?
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Has Charles been to Atlanta?
Beyond that, math is hard for Charles. Let's stipulate the 15% figure for the black US population. If we put the total population at 340M then 15%=51M. How are we defining the South? If we're sticking with the traditional Deep South, then it's 7 states: AL, AR, FL, GA, MS, NC, SC, TN.
Current population total of those states: 71.5M. To achieve a 51% majority in 7 states would require 36.5M. Which would leave just 14.5M remaining in 43 other states combined including CA, NY, OH, IL, MI, PA. Population of CA, NY, OH, IL, PA, MI alone is now 106.5M - which would leave just 16M black people in them (6, 2.85, 1.95, 1.9, 1.8, 1.5M respectively) leaving them with massively reduced political power especially given the burgeoning Latino political base. Hint for Charles: if you think white people are racist, try your Mexican new arrivals.
Mind you, if Charles views Texas as a Southern state then that's 15.1M (51% of 30M) more that are required - which leaves Charles with a MINUS 700,000 black people in the rest of the union. Forget being 'erased' - Charles doesn't even have the recording tape yet.
On one hand it may be folly to actually run the numbers since leftists don't acknowledge the power or existence of numbers whether we're talking about climatology, coronavirus, taxes, expenditures or test scores.
On the other hand, it is worthwhile to demonstrate that manifestos such as this are long-form juvenile revenge fantasies. Naturally, Charles makes the additional assumption that blacks can, should and will vote in monolithic fashion now and forever. Because HE is the racist here.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/31/2021 1:01:45 PM (No. 680197)
Charles, blow!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 1/31/2021 1:04:47 PM (No. 680205)
American blacks (aka Negroes) would never make it in 99% of Africa.
Even in the most remote villages, accessible by dirt roads or plane, the people speak beautiful, fluent English. Their nouns and verbs agree. And the children are HAPPY with a ball and stick and each other. No need for the latest video game, fake nails, phone, tennis shoes, or other accoutrements now valued by our culture.
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An even better idea would for black Americans to stop having abortions at such a high rate. If they did that, their percentage of the population would grow, leading to them having more power where they are.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hershey 1/31/2021 1:11:25 PM (No. 680215)
I think Blow sucks..
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Right Time 1/31/2021 1:17:51 PM (No. 680229)
A lot of white-owned farms in South Africa are free for the taking. Why not move there?
Apparently, all attempts to become civilized over 400 years have failed.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Pete Stone 1/31/2021 1:26:37 PM (No. 680246)
Ho-hum! 1970's Ron Karenga all over again -- a blast from the past. (Although he now calls himself Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga...)
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
robertthomason 1/31/2021 1:27:31 PM (No. 680248)
Mr. Charles is behind the curve. The reverse migration has been going on for some time.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 1/31/2021 1:29:21 PM (No. 680251)
Again, this writer of fantasies lives up to his name. For his writing does blow, and in big nasty chunks. I guess he has missed the reality that the blacks back to the South migration started happening at least a couple of decades ago, for I seem to remember that writers of the day expressed shock about how blacks would desire to live in the South.
Maybe it is because the northern states have become so crime ridden under democrat control that they wanted to come to the red states and live in peace?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Ribicon 1/31/2021 1:30:40 PM (No. 680256)
Another comic touch here is that thanks to open borders and mass immigration, supported by their bought and paid for community leaders, African Americans have been demographically replaced by The Latinx Community, which doesn't particularly care to hide being anti-bLACK.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
downnout 1/31/2021 1:36:35 PM (No. 680271)
Obviously a man who wants “undesirables” out of his neighborhood.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Catherine 1/31/2021 1:37:46 PM (No. 680275)
Has this moron ever been to the south? Does he have any idea how it works? Some large cities are mostly all black. Smaller cities and towns have civil rights rules that determine the number of blacks you must hire. When I worked in Baton Rouge, the town was something like 35% black population. That meant we had to have 35% blacks in city and stage jobs. And there are educated blacks that number on par with whites. Too many people who have never lived in the south judge it by what happens in Hollywood movies. We call those people ignorant.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/31/2021 1:38:52 PM (No. 680278)
Where do you live, Charles?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
sw penn 1/31/2021 1:52:42 PM (No. 680291)
Can you imagine the outcry
if anyone was to suggest creating
'centers of white power'?
Hypocrisy thy name is...
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
czechlist 1/31/2021 1:56:25 PM (No. 680298)
#8 back in 2003 I went to Marietta on business. I drove the perimeter road from Hartsfield to Dobbins AFB. I felt like I was in a foreign country - and I was living
Dallas. I worked with a black guy from Cameroon who despised American blacks who identified as African American - "they would not last one week in Cameroon".
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 1/31/2021 2:06:10 PM (No. 680305)
Keith Ellison (D-Minnemogadishu) proposed this idea at one time. I think Ellison specified 5 states that could be turned into nearly all-black enclaves without too much effort.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 1/31/2021 2:20:31 PM (No. 680314)
A lot of them have left the north back to the south.
I wish slavery never happened, things would be alot better.
We are bending to 13 percent of the population.
Blacks are not even the number one majority.
Spanish speakers are.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
chance_232 1/31/2021 2:37:04 PM (No. 680328)
All of Africa and most of the carribean is black. How's that working out?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
lana720 1/31/2021 3:52:39 PM (No. 680373)
If they do move here, leave their privilege behind. We get along quite well without them. We don’t need turmoil.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
GW_Rider 1/31/2021 4:31:56 PM (No. 680404)
hooray
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
jasmine 1/31/2021 4:43:35 PM (No. 680413)
Has anyone called their Democrat electeds (the ones who approve of the illegal alien caravans headed our way) to remind them there is not enough Covid19 vaccine to meet the needs of our own citizens and legal residents?
Because President Donald Trump put Americans FIRST, we have vaccines available for Americans.
Why are we not a priority to Democrats?
Why are Americans with cancer waiting for the vaccine while Gitmo terrorists have their needs met before Americans do? And why is Biden promising amnesty to illegal aliens, and protecting them from deportation while the virus still rages across our country?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
GO3 1/31/2021 4:48:51 PM (No. 680419)
#25, correction. Sub-saharan Africa is black, North Africa is a mix of Semites and descendants of European colonial powers - and some blacks.
Anyway, migration to the South is also due to companies with names like Carrier and Trane.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 1/31/2021 4:51:02 PM (No. 680421)
What does Dr. Lamar Hill have to say about this?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/31/2021 5:52:21 PM (No. 680462)
May be politically incorrect but I'm not political.
I recall boarding an Air France flight in Gabo behind a well dressed black fellow.
The attendant asked hi if she could help him with anything and he said ... honest ...
Yes, close that door and get my black azz back to Texas.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/31/2021 6:26:49 PM (No. 680493)
Is he still alive?
I vote for their going way, way south. Back to Africa…
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/31/2021 6:28:57 PM (No. 680498)
13.4% of the population.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
anonymous 1/31/2021 7:00:20 PM (No. 680516)
Is he for black segregation? The Left pretends it is helping blacks when it's actually dividing them, exploiting them, and ultimately impoverishing them. Leftists would re-introduce slavery if it were an exploitable commodity.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
joew9 1/31/2021 7:02:35 PM (No. 680518)
"discrimination, police brutality, white nationalism" Yep. That's what I discovered about the north and especially the northwest after I graduated college and had to travel to many places outside the south.
My conclusion is the least racists place in the US in the southeastern US.
In Seattle they lectured me on how tolerant they were of blacks and how as a southeasterner I wasn't. They were completely misinformed. But then after enduring their lectures they went on a rampage against the American Indians. They hated them. They discriminated against them. They stereo typed them. I concluded that Seattle was the most racist city I had ever been in. It took them six months to get over their misinformed ideas about me before they offered me the job. I turned down the offer.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 1/31/2021 7:26:54 PM (No. 680552)
Several realities blow Blow's nonsense out of the water.
The South can't match the generous welfare benefits that the North provides.
The South is far less predator-friendly, drug-dealer-friendly, murderer-friendly, rapist-friendly than the North.
They actually execute predators in some Southern states
The North needs the Vote Fraud operations centered in cities like Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 1/31/2021 8:16:25 PM (No. 680596)
In other words, let's make the North white again!
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
smokincol 1/31/2021 8:17:56 PM (No. 680598)
that's got to be a nom de plume.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/31/2021 9:32:48 PM (No. 680660)
He just wants the Blacks OUT of the North East Big Cities so the Libs can have them all to themselves...
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Sounds racist to me. Another high rise maven who should move to Liberia.
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bLACK privilege means you're hailed for proclaiming your racism. But why stop at the South? Move back to Africa and see how that works out, minus the despised WHITE people to provide technology, infrastructure, jobs, and cradle-to-grave welfare for the idle. Liberia awaits!